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   From: barmar@alum.mit.edu   
      
   In article   
   <2093b374-9107-45ad-9dcb-d446f4d0aa54@z8g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,   
    David Schwartz  wrote:   
      
   > > My approach is basically a select based server. Literature say's it   
   > > performs better than the threaded model, but unfortunately it's not   
   > > really fast.   
   >   
   > I'm not sure why the literature would say that.   
      
   I think the "literature" he's referring to is talking about the   
   alternative of having a separate thread for each socket, using blocking   
   reads/writes in each thread.   
      
   For a small number of sockets this may be reasonable, as it makes the   
   coding simpler.  But with lots of sockets, all the context switching   
   overhead between threads can be a problem.   
      
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